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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>I noticed a bunch of motherboard vendors are starting to ship
with products based on Serverworks (Broadcom) HT1000 and HT2000 chips. Does
anyone have a project in progress to support these chips in LinuxBIOS at this
point? If not, is the reason due to some limitation Serverworks has on its
support in GPLed BIOS code? What about the following generation of parts from
Serverworks?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=black face=ge><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:ge;color:black'>Alan Mimms, Senior Architect</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'><br>
</span></font><b><font color=red face=ge><span style='font-family:ge;
color:red;font-weight:bold'>F5 Networks, Inc.</span></font></b><font face=ge><span
style='font-family:ge'> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>Spokane</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Development</st1:PlaceName>
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<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>1322 North Whitman Lane</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>Liberty Lake</span></font></st1:City><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>, <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> 99019</span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=black face=ge><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:ge;color:black'>v: 509-343-3524 f: 509-343-3501<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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